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LINEbreak Radio Recording Session, New York, 1995


PoemTalk #46, discussing Jackson Mac Low's "Words nd Ends from Ez," October 13, 2011

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.


A Celebration of Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works (edited by Anne Tardos),

CUE Arts Foundation, January 18, 2008

Featuring Anne Tardos, Charles Bernstein, Drew Gardner,

Joan Retallack, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and others.





CD from Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces 1955–2002 Granary Books, 2006




Reading at the Conference on American Poetry of the 1940s, University of Maine, Orono, June 24 2004

courtesy of A.L. Nielsen's Heatstrings

  1. Introduction (5:09): MP3
  2. Jackson Mac Low on Ezra Pound (2:28): MP3
  3. HUNGER STrikE wh at doe S lifemean (6:55): MP3
  4. Hear I Here (1:08): MP3
  5. Memory (0:40): MP3
  6. Clear Reapers Pleasing (0:21): MP3
  7. Molly Go (0:36): MP3
  8. & The (0:36): MP3
  9. Clear Being (0:45): MP3
  10. Whenas My Love (1:23): MP3
  11. The Scene (2:41): MP3
  12. Barnes 1 (6:34): MP3
  13. Barnes 2 (4:38): MP3
  14. To Them knew louder locust (7:02): MP3

Complete Reading (41:56): MP3


Segue reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, May 8, 2004

Complete Reading (32:35): MP3, RealAudio
  1. Introduction (1:51): MP3
  2. It Will Glow Unseen Until It Doesn't (HSCH 1) (6:14): MP3
  3. Our Throng is Too Much Involved with Dazzle (HSCH 9L) (4:37): MP3
  4. Our Creativity-Memory Was Wrung, Was It? (HSCH 6) (3:27): MP3
  5. That Consummatory Process Had Already Been Published (HSCH 2) (11:33): MP3
  6. Feeling Down Clementi Felt Impost Upon From Every Direction (HSCH 10) (3:36): MP3

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series at the Drawing Center, NYC, June 26, 2001

  1. Introduction (2:11): MP3
  2. Jackson Mac Low discussing his writing methods (4:36): MP3
  3. Disappointing Not Sweet Redness (Stein 151) (5:02): MP3
  4. Something Upsetting (Stein 88) (8:58): MP3
  5. Is Adventure Feeling Being Connected with Others? (Stein 160) (3:16): MP3
  6. She Addressed Him Like Useless Mischief (Stein 56) (11:34): MP3
  7. Mercy No More (Stein 156) (2:37): MP3
  8. That Orange (Stein 159) (2:33): MP3
Complete Reading (40:59): MP3

Wednesday Night Series: Jackson Mac Low, Anne Tardos, St. Mark's Church, NY, March 14, 2001

Library of Congress recording (1:23:40): link

Music by Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos

Recorded Live at Roulette, New York, 18 November 1999

Appearing on PhillyTalks Episode 2 with Andrew Levy, November 5, 1997

Analysis of Levy's Struggle Against Misery and Others (12:30): MP3

"Sprit -- A Word I Never Use": A Response to Jackson Mac Low and Andrew Levy by Alan Filreis

The Radio Reading Project Session, 1998

Produced by Ernesto Livon-Grosman
  1. Introduction (0:57): MP3
  2. A Poem for Armand Schwerner on his 65th Birthday (2:09): MP3
  3. discussing "A Poem for Armand Schwerner on his 65th Birthday" and nonintentional procedures (18:41): MP3
  4. Forites 1 (6:55): MP3
  5. discussing his "Forties" poems (3:09): MP3
  6. Rebus Effort Remove Government, a poem for John Cage's 79th birthday (2:32): MP3
  7. on repetition, meaning, and editing (4:33): MP3
  8. He Never Relaxed for a Moment (3:43): MP3
  9. on applying the diastic method to the Cantos (6:03): MP3
  10. Part 9 of Words nd Ends from Ez (2:57): MP3

Complete reading and discussion (51:51): MP3, Real Audio

"Words nd Ends" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 46.


The Jackson Mac Low 75th Birthday Festschrift, September 20, 1997

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    Reading at SUNY Buffalo, 1997

    Reading from from the "Forties" series

    1. Introduction to Forties (5:42): MP3
    2. Forties 9: Kalmon Dolgin Bluestone (4:51): MP3
    3. Forties 10: Solar Panel Menopause (4:25): MP3
    4. Forties 11: Transferal Cranberry Nicholas de Staël (5:49): MP3
    5. Forties 148: The Woman You Look At But Not Through (4:29): MP3
    6. Forties 149: Getting the Words on the Road (3:49): MP3
    7. Forties 150: Wind Up Living in Berlin (5:55): MP3
    8. Forties 151: Turning these Sifted Pages (4:44): MP3
    9. Forties 152: Digging Dimes as Crazy as Glass (3:50): MP3
    10. Forties 153: Not Kind Enough to Revise Human Instinct You Are Clean Cold Water (4:51): MP3
    11. Forties 154: Finding Your Own Name (4:35): MP3
    12. Blatancy (2:48): MP3

    Complete Reading (56:03): MP3

    Reading at Prospects Conference, Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ, May 23, 1996

    Complete recording (16:15): MP3

    Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 15, 1995

    1. Introduction (1:41): MP3
    2. Forties 105: Linguistic Relatives (4:50): MP3
    3. Forties 64: Who Builds White Clock Billowing Walls (3:25): MP3
    4. Happy 60th Birthday to Sten Hanson (3:06): MP3
    5. Forties 85: Our Time Disposal Close (4:55): MP3
    6. Forties 104: Huddled Nature (4:35): MP3
    7. Forties 78: Lengthen Darken Nothing Any Jobs Left (3:40): MP3
    8. Forties 75: He Made Faces Razor Thin (4:20): MP3
    9. Forties 76: Back of the Zóhar-Equivalence (5:21): MP3
    Complete Reading (37:15): MP3

    Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, May 20, 1995

    1. Forties 73: The Beautiful Danferous Wednesday Fought and Fabled (4:31): MP3
    2. Forties 68: Her Roastin' Identity Packed With Anarchronisms (3:18): MP3
    3. Forties 64: Who Builds White Clock Billowing Walls (3:23): MP3
    4. Forties 71: Allergic Mary Drowning Hungary (4:35): MP3
    5. Forties 67: Reduction of the Ingenue-Scarers (3:28): MP3
    6. Forties 70: Tree House City (4:28): MP3
    7. Forties 65: Sandy Furrows Silvered (3:32): MP3
    8. Forties 63: Clean-Spitting Muddy Yellow Moods (3:18): MP3
    • Complete recording (31:35): MP3

    Little Magazine Session, New York, April 2, 1995 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

    1. I Strife (1:31): MP3
    2. Giant Otters (1:08): MP3
    3. Giant Philosophical Otters (3:30): MP3
    4. More Giant Philosophical Otters (3:34): MP3
    5. Forties 16 (5:18): MP3
    6. Accusation Fallacia, for Annie (6:46): MP3
    7. A Breather, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:21): MP3
    8. Intention Disappears, a poem for John Cage's 79th birthday (1:47): MP3
    9. Rebus Effort Remove Government, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (2:32): MP3
    10. They Didn't Whir He Gave No Advice, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (3:03): MP3
    11. Cater Loaf (6:12): MP3
    12. This Occasion, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:34): MP3
    13. He Never Relaxed for a Moment, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:12): MP3
    14. Desecrated Anchorite Lofty (3:39): MP3

    Complete Reading (44:53): MP3

    Poetry Project, 1994: Forties 98-101:

    video

    Open Secrets (1993)


    The Radio Reading Project Session at New York University, 1992

    1. Introduction (2:18): MP3
    2. From "Armand's Storehouse 3" (2:17): MP3
    3. On methods (13:27): MP3
    4. On influence (5:19): MP3
    5. Forties (6:34): MP3
    6. Rebus Effort Remove Government (5:40): MP3
    7. On changes (4:23): MP3
    8. He Never Relaxe99:d for a Moment (3:43): MP3
    9. Canto Z Part (9:45): MP3